August 4 Blog Articles Plan ahead to socialize your puppy early! Recently, I witnessed an older couple struggling to carry a crate into a puppy kindergarten class. Once inside, they opened the crate and a large and beautiful Poodle puppy emerged – a pup who was not particularly young, nor disabled in any...
July 16 Blog Articles Dog Walking Apps: Are They Safe? Dog walking apps are trendy and easy to use, but are they dangerous? Get tips on safety and how to navigate interviewing a potential dog walking company and individual dog walkers.
June 12 Blog Articles Dogs and Mental Health: How You and Your Dog Affect One Another Is your dog's mental health reflecting your own? If you think your dog looks stressed out, it might be your own stress levels that are affecting your pet pooch. A study published on Thursday in Nature’s Scientific...
February 20 Blog Articles Positive Reinforcement Dog Training: Training Your Dog To Make Good Choices Dog Training and Positive Reinforcement - Why some handlers strive to empower their dogs to make more of their own choices. Some 30 years ago, Karen Pryor wrote a small volume intended to be a self-help book for humans. That...
February 17 Blog Articles Is Our Dogs' Behavior Genetic? Or is it “all in how you raise them”? Nature vs. nurture and raising a well-adjusted dog. Dr. Ilana Reisner wanted her new Australian Shepherd puppy, Asher, to have a rock-solid temperament. She knew how tough it is to live with a...
January 13 Blog Articles How Much Dog Training is Enough Dog training can be challenging. Life is too short to stress your dog out over achieving perfect obedience. Prioritize the cues you want to teach your dog and start one at a time, but remember teaching your dog should always be fun!
January 18 Blog Articles Dog Behaviour and Training: How to Train a Dog Not to Jump on You or Others There's a list of dog behaviours and training that people ask about. Jumping is one of the most common behaviors dog guardians want to overcome. But decreasing jumping is as much about changing a human’s behavior as the dogs. Click on...
December 11 Blog Articles Dog Training Games: Let's Play We learn by repetition, and so do dogs. Dog training doesn't have to be laborious. It shouldn't be! Click on Picture to Read More
November 25 Blog Articles Introducing the Clicker with Hand-Feeding Training is proven to be 67% more effective using a clicker than training your dog without one. Click on Picture to Read More
August 25 Blog Articles Home To Their “Hardest To Adopt” Dog Although Melani Andrews endured her share of heartbreak last year, she still has a ton of love to give...Click on Article to Read More
August 20 Blog Articles Install an “Off Switch” on Playtime I adopted my first Australian Kelpie in the mid-1980s. This is a breed I cheerfully describe as “Border Collies on uppers”...Click on Picture to Read More
August 15 Blog Articles Why Trim Your Dog’s Toenails The most common reasons for avoiding nail trims are that the owner is afraid of “quicking” the dog, or that the dog fusses and creates bad feelings around the procedure...Click on Picture to Read More
